Queries.(Cumming Ceramic Research Foundation's scholarships; catalogue raisonne of sculptor Harriet Whitney Frishmuth; research on wallpaper patterns reconstruction )

Established in 1991, the Cumming Ceramic Research Foundation is a Canadian nonprofit federally incorporated charitable trust. It seeks to encourage and support the knowledge about ceramics, with emphasis on the production of English and continental factories. The foundation provides an annual scholarship of up to Can$2,000 for original research regarding the history, development, technology style, or use of English or continental ceramics dating from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century Additional scholarships may also be awarded. For 2003, applications must be received by December 31, 2002, and recipients will be notified by March 15, 2003. Please write to the following address for scholarship conditions and application requirements.

Cumming Ceramic Research Foundation

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Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980) is the subject of a forthcoming catalogue raisonne. The sculptor was born in Philadelphia and spent most of her early years in Europe with her mother and sister. She studied sculpture in Paris under Auguste Rodin and Jean Antoine Injalbert, which resulted in a 1903 submission of work by her to the Paris Salon. After spending a brief period in Berlin, she returned to the United States and settled in New York City. About 1910 Frishmuth began to establish her reputation by creating small, commercially viable bronze objects, such as letter openers, bookends, lamps, portrait reliefs, and sundials cast by the Gorham Company Founders. Her first freestanding female nude, Girl with Dolphin, was created in 1913, and three years later she met ...